As we saw yesterday, the Today show team dressed in an 80s theme with Al Roker donning a Dollar Store fright wig to portray Doc Brown (of the irony) from Back To The Future. Because we’re living in the upside down where grown men and women pretend to be dumber than a box of rocks (or in some cases just are), some folks cried that Al’s costume was racist. Le sigh. Yes, we are really still doing this. In response to the online criticism, Al #tooktotwitter to defend his right to play a character who was played by a white man in a movie about a time traveling car that runs on garbage.
E! News reports that in the wake of Megyn Kelly’s dismissal from Today, which was nominally due to her impassioned belief that blackface is an unalienable right and should be part of everybody’s Halloween bag-o-tricks, and Al’s condemnation of said bullshit, Al’s Today mad scientist drag got dragged.
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